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2021 Tennessee Code
Title 67 - Taxes and Licenses
Chapter 4 - Privilege and Excise Taxes
Part 10 - Tobacco Tax Law
§ 67-4-1024. Violations — Criminal Penalties
Universal Citation: TN Code § 67-4-1024 (2021)
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- It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business of selling, distributing or handling tobacco products without the license required by this part, or after the license required by this part has been revoked, or for any person to violate any rule or regulation promulgated or prescribed by the commissioner under the authority vested in the commissioner by this part.
- A violation of subdivision (a)(1) is a Class B misdemeanor.
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- It is unlawful for any person to sell or to possess for the purpose of sale, gift, use or consumption, or to transport in violation of this part, any tobacco products to which the tax stamps are not affixed, where such stamps are required to be affixed under this part, and any other tobacco products upon which tax has not been paid in a manner other than through the affixation of tax stamps where, under this part, it is provided that it shall be paid in such other manner.
- A violation of subdivision (b)(1) is a Class B misdemeanor.
- Any person unlawfully having in such person's possession over twenty-five (25) cartons of unstamped cigarettes or over ten (10) boxes of cigars of fifty (50) cigars each in violation of any provisions of this part commits a Class E felony.
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